Astronomy Picture of the Day · 1998
APOD 1998
365 entries from 1998: 365 images and 0 videos. 73 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
December 31, 1998 The Year of Distant Supernovae
Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team, HST, NASA
November 30, 1998 An Annotated Leonid
Credit & Copyright: B. Yen (Comet-Track)
October 31, 1998 Bats And The Barren Moon
Credit: Apollo 17, NASA
September 30, 1998 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
Credit: FORS1, 8.2-meter VLT, ESO
August 31, 1998 A3827: Galactic Cannibal
Credit: Michael J. West (St. Mary’s U.), ESO 1-m Telescope
July 31, 1998 IRAS Orion
Credit: IRAS Project, IPACThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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December 1998 (31)
- Dec 31 The Year of Distant Supernovae
- Dec 30 Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe
- Dec 29 A Geminid From Gemini Copyrighted
- Dec 28 NEAR to Asteroid Eros
- Dec 27 M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
- Dec 26 Gamma-Ray Quasar
- Dec 25 Nebulae For Christmas
- Dec 24 Mars Climate Orbiter Launches
- Dec 23 Ring Around the Galaxy
- Dec 22 Dawn of the Leonids
- Dec 21 Solstice Sun In Soft X-rays
- Dec 20 Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 891 Copyrighted
- Dec 19 Cartwheel Of Fortune
- Dec 18 TT Cygni: Carbon Star
- Dec 17 The Night Shift
- Dec 16 3-D Mars' North Pole
- Dec 15 Plains and Ridges on Europa
- Dec 14 The Hubble Deep Field South
- Dec 13 Blasting Off from the Moon
- Dec 12 Driving To The Sun
- Dec 11 High Redshift Quasars
- Dec 10 Assembling The International Space Station
- Dec 9 NGC 253: The Sculptor Galaxy
- Dec 8 Leonids from Leo
- Dec 7 Star-Forming Region RCW38
- Dec 6 CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule Copyrighted
- Dec 5 Surveyor Hops
- Dec 4 Centaurus A: The Galaxy Deep Inside
- Dec 3 Deep Space 1
- Dec 2 A Deep Field In The Southern Sky
- Dec 1 Cepheus 1: Nearby Galaxy Hiding
November 1998 (30)
- Nov 30 An Annotated Leonid Copyrighted
- Nov 29 Arecibo: The Largest Telescope
- Nov 28 A Lonely Neutron Star
- Nov 27 Twisting Meteor Train Copyrighted
- Nov 26 Meteor Milky Way Copyrighted
- Nov 25 A Leonid Bolide Over Kansas Copyrighted
- Nov 24 Seven Leonids Over Wise Observatory
- Nov 23 A Leonid Meteor Explodes
- Nov 22 The High Energy Crab Nebula
- Nov 21 Catching Falling Stardust
- Nov 20 Green Fireball Copyrighted
- Nov 19 Bright Leonids Copyrighted
- Nov 18 Close-Up of the Bubble Nebula
- Nov 17 NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula Copyrighted
- Nov 16 Leonids 1998: A Safe Meteor Storm Copyrighted
- Nov 15 Deimos: A Small Martian Moon
- Nov 14 Surveyor Slides
- Nov 13 A Leonid Fireball From 1966
- Nov 12 GLAST Gamma-Ray Sky Simulation
- Nov 11 Aurora Above
- Nov 10 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
- Nov 9 WR124: Stellar Fireball
- Nov 8 Leonid Meteor Shower Next Week Copyrighted
- Nov 7 Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
- Nov 6 Cutaway Callisto: Ice, Rock, and Ocean?
- Nov 5 Natural Saturn On The Cassini Cruise
- Nov 4 Cosmology Solved?
- Nov 3 Sextans A: A Seemingly Square Galaxy
- Nov 2 PG 1115+080 A Ghost of Lensing Past
- Nov 1 The Cat's Eye Nebula
October 1998 (31)
- Oct 31 Bats And The Barren Moon
- Oct 30 John Glenn: Discovery Launch
- Oct 29 John Glenn: Friendship 7 To Discovery
- Oct 28 NGC 6210: The “Turtle in Space” Planetary Nebula
- Oct 27 Henrietta Leavitt Calibrates the Stars
- Oct 26 An Ion Drive for Deep Space 1
- Oct 25 The Pleiades Star Cluster Copyrighted
- Oct 24 The Sun Also Rises
- Oct 23 Seyfert Galaxy NGC 7742
- Oct 22 Jupiter: When Storms Collide
- Oct 21 The Case of the Missing Aurora
- Oct 20 Infrared Uranus
- Oct 19 Olympus Mons from Orbit
- Oct 18 Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways
- Oct 17 A Giant Globular Cluster in M31
- Oct 16 Io Aurora
- Oct 15 A Great Day For SOHO
- Oct 14 The World's Largest Ozone Hole
- Oct 13 In the Center of the Dumbbell Nebula
- Oct 12 The Hubble Deep Field in Infrared
- Oct 11 Resolving Mira
- Oct 10 Maria Mitchell Inspires a Generation Copyrighted
- Oct 9 M27: Not A Comet
- Oct 8 Far Side of the Moon
- Oct 7 Ocean Planet Pole To Pole
- Oct 6 Comet Williams in 1998 Copyrighted
- Oct 5 A Sunspot Up Close
- Oct 4 One Small Step
- Oct 3 Sputnik: Traveling Companion
- Oct 2 Magnetar In The Sky
- Oct 1 Happy 40th Birthday, NASA!
September 1998 (30)
- Sep 30 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
- Sep 29 A Peculiar Cluster of Galaxies
- Sep 28 A Hurricane in the Gulf
- Sep 27 Albert Einstein Describes Space and Time
- Sep 26 Space Walz
- Sep 25 Twin Proto-Planetary Disks
- Sep 24 The North Pole Of Mars
- Sep 23 Autumn and the Active Sun
- Sep 22 M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy Copyrighted
- Sep 21 NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules Copyrighted
- Sep 20 Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System
- Sep 19 18 Miles From Deimos
- Sep 18 Lunar Prospects
- Sep 17 Radio, The Big Ear, And The Wow! Signal Copyrighted
- Sep 16 Jupiters Rings Revealed
- Sep 15 The NTT SUSI Deep Field
- Sep 14 Dust Hip-Deep on Phobos
- Sep 13 Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
- Sep 12 Star Trails in Northern Skies Copyrighted
- Sep 11 Help Map The Moon
- Sep 10 Europa: Ridges and Rafts on a Frozen Moon
- Sep 9 Crater Copernicus
- Sep 8 A Cluster Too Far
- Sep 7 The Sky Towards Sagittarius Copyrighted
- Sep 6 Mariner's Mercury
- Sep 5 The Pulsar Powered Crab
- Sep 4 Nozomi: Earth and Moon
- Sep 3 SGR 1900+14: Magnetar
- Sep 2 Saturn from Earth Copyrighted
- Sep 1 A Colorful Aurora Copyrighted
August 1998 (31)
- Aug 31 A3827: Galactic Cannibal
- Aug 30 The Sun Erupts
- Aug 29 Orion Star Colours Copyrighted
- Aug 28 Hydrogen Trifid Copyrighted
- Aug 27 Hercules Galaxies
- Aug 26 The Magellanic Stream
- Aug 25 Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Phoenix Copyrighted
- Aug 24 An Annular Eclipse of the Sun Copyrighted
- Aug 23 Vega
- Aug 22 Twistin' by the Lagoon
- Aug 21 A Massive Cluster In A Young Universe
- Aug 20 SOHO Composite: Coronal Mass Ejection
- Aug 19 M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules Copyrighted
- Aug 18 APM 08279+5255: The Brightest Object Yet Known
- Aug 17 Comet Hyakutake and the Milky Way Copyrighted
- Aug 16 Doomed Star Eta Carinae
- Aug 15 The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies Copyrighted
- Aug 14 The Dunes Of Mars
- Aug 13 The Moons Of Earth
- Aug 12 ERAST Pathfinder-Plus: Daedalus Defied
- Aug 11 Sun Dance
- Aug 10 Meteors Now and Again
- Aug 9 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula Copyrighted
- Aug 8 The Cygnus Loop
- Aug 7 M65 Without Moth
- Aug 6 Infrared Horsehead
- Aug 5 Ganymede: Torn Comet – Crater Chain
- Aug 4 Jupiter Swallows Comet Shoemaker Levy 9
- Aug 3 M44: A Beehive of Stars Copyrighted
- Aug 2 Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges
- Aug 1 A String Of Pearls
July 1998 (31)
- Jul 31 IRAS Orion
- Jul 30 Volcanos on Mars: Elysium Region
- Jul 29 The High Energy Heart Of The Milky Way
- Jul 28 Impact on Jupiter
- Jul 27 N81: Starbirth in the SMC
- Jul 26 Antares Copyrighted
- Jul 25 Hawaii
- Jul 24 Alan B. Shepard Jr. 1923-1998
- Jul 23 X-Ray Pulsar
- Jul 22 Dark Craters on Ganymede
- Jul 21 Nearby Spiral M33 Copyrighted
- Jul 20 La Nina Watch
- Jul 19 Globular Cluster M3 Copyrighted
- Jul 18 Rockets and Robert Goddard
- Jul 17 Hyakutake: Stars Through A Comet's Tail Copyrighted
- Jul 16 X-Ray Triple Jet
- Jul 15 Ghost Galaxy NGC 2915
- Jul 14 At Work on Mars
- Jul 13 GRB 980703: A Reassuring Redshift
- Jul 12 Asteroid Gaspra's Best Face
- Jul 11 M64: The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy
- Jul 10 NGC 1531/2: Interacting Galaxies
- Jul 9 Hale-Bopp: The Crowd Pleaser Comet Copyrighted
- Jul 8 Mysterious Pluto and Charon
- Jul 7 M8: The Lagoon Nebula Copyrighted
- Jul 6 Sizzling Io
- Jul 5 Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
- Jul 4 The Firework Nebula Copyrighted
- Jul 3 Mir Above
- Jul 2 X-ray Transit Of Mercury
- Jul 1 NGC 1808: A Nearby Starburst Galaxy
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June 1998 (30)
- Jun 30 The Universe Evolves
- Jun 29 Solar Magnetic Bananas
- Jun 28 Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
- Jun 27 Southern Neptune
- Jun 26 A Planet For Gliese 876 Copyrighted
- Jun 25 NGC 4650A: Strange Galaxy and Dark Matter
- Jun 24 Sparkling Star May Indicate Galactic Composition
- Jun 23 A Slice Through an Artificial Universe
- Jun 22 The Doomed Dust Disk of NGC 7052
- Jun 21 Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe
- Jun 20 Pioneer 10: The First 6 Billion Miles
- Jun 19 Good Morning Mars
- Jun 18 Cosmic Rays and Supernova Dust
- Jun 17 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope
- Jun 16 An Active Region of the Sun
- Jun 15 NGC 4314: A Nuclear Starburst Ring
- Jun 14 Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images
- Jun 13 Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC Copyrighted
- Jun 12 Orion Nebula: The 2MASS View
- Jun 11 SOHO's Twin Sungrazers
- Jun 10 NGC 6070: First Light for Sloan
- Jun 9 Ice Cusps on Europa
- Jun 8 A Mars Glint
- Jun 7 The Hubble Deep Field
- Jun 6 M100: A Grand Design
- Jun 5 Neutrinos in the Sun
- Jun 4 Comet SOHO and Nebulae in Orion Copyrighted
- Jun 3 Martian Crater Shows Evidence of Dried Pond
- Jun 2 NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula Copyrighted
- Jun 1 Solar Flares Cause Sun Quakes
May 1998 (31)
- May 31 Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
- May 30 Water World
- May 29 An Extrasolar Planet?
- May 28 Afterglow
- May 27 Magnetar
- May 26 A Seemingly Square Sun Copyrighted
- May 25 M83: A Barred Spiral Galaxy
- May 24 A High Energy Fleet
- May 23 7,000 Stars And The Milky Way Copyrighted
- May 22 The Center of Centaurus A
- May 21 Bright Comet SOHO Copyrighted
- May 20 Discovery Image: Comet SOHO (1998 J1)
- May 19 Apollo 11: Onto a New World
- May 18 NGC 6369: A Donut Shaped Nebula
- May 17 Our Solar System from Voyager
- May 16 Helios Helium
- May 15 TRACE and the Active Sun
- May 14 Comet Stonehouse Copyrighted
- May 13 Occultations and Rising Moons Copyrighted
- May 12 Callisto Enhanced
- May 11 Callisto in True Color
- May 10 Skylab Over Earth
- May 9 The Water Vapor Channel
- May 8 A Gamma-Ray Burst Supernova?
- May 7 A Powerful Gamma-ray Burst
- May 6 Beijing Ancient Observatory
- May 5 Aurora at Midnight Copyrighted
- May 4 M57: The Ring Nebula
- May 3 Standing on the Moon
- May 2 The Frothy Milky Way
- May 1 Venus: Just Passing By
April 1998 (30)
- Apr 30 Mars: Big Crater in Stereo
- Apr 29 Tornadoes on the Sun
- Apr 28 A Double Conjunction Eclipse Copyrighted
- Apr 27 IC 4406: A Seemingly Square Nebula
- Apr 26 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
- Apr 25 Supernova Remnant and Neutron Star
- Apr 24 Infrared Saturn
- Apr 23 Three Dusty Stars
- Apr 22 HR 4796A: A Recipe for Planets
- Apr 21 Water in Orion Copyrighted
- Apr 20 Name This Satellite
- Apr 19 Betelgeuse
- Apr 18 Star Wars in NGC 664
- Apr 17 Mars: Looking For Viking
- Apr 16 Mars: Cydonia Close-Up
- Apr 15 NGC 1818: Pick A Star
- Apr 14 Starlight Reflections Copyrighted
- Apr 13 The Sun Changes
- Apr 12 Stars from Eagle's EGGs
- Apr 11 NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
- Apr 10 Hyakutake: Comet Atmosphere
- Apr 9 Quasar in an Elliptical Galaxy
- Apr 8 Nabta: Older than Stonehenge
- Apr 7 Return To Cydonia
- Apr 6 A Face On Mars
- Apr 5 X-Ray Pleiades
- Apr 4 Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone
- Apr 3 Hen-1357: New Born Nebula
- Apr 2 Iridium Flare Copyrighted
- Apr 1 Astronaut Kicks Lunar Field Goal
March 1998 (31)
- Mar 31 M20: The Trifid Nebula Copyrighted
- Mar 30 A Bulls-Eye Einstein Ring
- Mar 29 NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster Copyrighted
- Mar 28 Von Braun's Wheel
- Mar 27 Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
- Mar 26 Galaxies Away
- Mar 25 Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared
- Mar 24 A Baby Galaxy
- Mar 23 Starbirth in NGC 1808
- Mar 22 Sunspots: Magnetic Depressions
- Mar 21 The Gamma Ray Sky
- Mar 20 Mars: Ridges Near The South Pole
- Mar 19 Mars: A Canyon's Edge
- Mar 18 Interstellar Dust-Bunnies of NGC 891 Copyrighted
- Mar 17 Clouds Over Tharsis on Mars
- Mar 16 Asteroids in the Distance
- Mar 15 Unusual M82: The Cigar Galaxy Copyrighted
- Mar 14 A Spiral Galaxy Gallery
- Mar 13 Asteroids
- Mar 12 Moon Shadow
- Mar 11 A Total Eclipse of the Sun Copyrighted
- Mar 10 Cracks and Ridges on Europa
- Mar 9 Yogi Rock on Mars
- Mar 8 Shuttle Engine Blast
- Mar 7 NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster
- Mar 6 Water Ice At The Lunar Poles
- Mar 5 Canaries Sky Copyrighted
- Mar 4 Aurora Over Alaska Copyrighted
- Mar 3 560 Kilometers Above Europa
- Mar 2 Rumors of a Strange Universe
- Mar 1 A Sky Full Of Hydrogen
February 1998 (28)
- Feb 28 Eagle EGGs in M16
- Feb 27 Solar Eclipse: A Composite View
- Feb 26 A Southern Sky View Copyrighted
- Feb 25 The Solar Neighborhood Copyrighted
- Feb 24 The Lyman Alpha Forest Copyrighted
- Feb 23 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
- Feb 22 Southern Lights and Shuttle Glow
- Feb 21 Neptune: Big Blue Giant
- Feb 20 Hale-Bopp: A Continuing Tail
- Feb 19 Miranda
- Feb 18 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
- Feb 17 Shocked by Supernova 1987a
- Feb 16 Sagittarius Dwarf to Collide with Milky Way
- Feb 15 Stars Without Galaxies
- Feb 14 The Rosette Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 13 Explorer I
- Feb 12 In A Grand Canyon On Mars
- Feb 11 Ultra-Fast Pulsar
- Feb 10 All of Mars
- Feb 9 The Witch Head Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 8 M1: Filaments of the Crab Nebula Copyrighted
- Feb 7 COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known
- Feb 6 Happy Birthday Jules Verne
- Feb 5 A Martian River Bed?
- Feb 4 A Passing Spaceship Views Earth
- Feb 3 A Magellanic Mural
- Feb 2 A Triple Eclipse on Jupiter
- Feb 1 NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula in Orion Copyrighted
January 1998 (31)
- Jan 31 Hamlet of Oberon
- Jan 30 Tempel-Tuttle: The Leonid Comet Copyrighted
- Jan 29 The Earth-Moon System
- Jan 28 The Infrared Sky
- Jan 27 The Great Nebula in Orion Copyrighted
- Jan 26 Interplanetary Spacecraft Passes Earth Copyrighted
- Jan 25 The Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC) Copyrighted
- Jan 24 The Large Cloud Of Magellan (LMC) Copyrighted
- Jan 23 Jovian Aurora
- Jan 22 Closer To Beta Pic
- Jan 21 Our Dusty Universe
- Jan 20 Arachnoids on Venus
- Jan 19 The Hubble 5 Planetary Nebula
- Jan 18 Saturn, Rings, and Two Moons
- Jan 17 At The Core Of M15
- Jan 16 Dusting Spiral Galaxies
- Jan 15 Eugene Shoemaker: 1928-1997
- Jan 14 A Distant Destiny
- Jan 13 El Niño Water Rhythm
- Jan 12 The Keyhole Nebula Copyrighted
- Jan 11 Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens
- Jan 10 Disorder in Stephan's Quintet
- Jan 9 Saturnian Aurora
- Jan 8 Destination: Moon
- Jan 7 The Colorful Moon
- Jan 6 The Red Spider Planetary Nebula
- Jan 5 Earth's Richat Structure
- Jan 4 Fractal Interstellar Dust Up-Close Copyrighted
- Jan 3 The Barren Moon
- Jan 2 Europa's Disconnected Surface
- Jan 1 The Largest Rock Known
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